We have a pretty full month of entertaining at home ahead of us and pond maintenance will be a priority. By the end of the summer, I might have the landscaping done. I have some plants that have been in their nursery pots for weeks now. Some of my evergreens (like the mugo pines) took…
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Pond mutts
My little experiment is working – some of the eggs laid on Wednesday morning have hatched into teeny tiny koi fry. A few of them may have perished trying to swim around the bubbling aerator so we’ve switched to a more gentle aerator.
Working on a koi pond is kind of messy
Two weeks since I last posted; the pond digger says I’m slacking off. I actually do have a life outside of koi keeping that keeps me pretty busy. We have a kitchen renovation that started seven weeks ago and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Of course my house is dusty, things…
More sex in the pond…
Love is in the water…Momochan and Takuan have been exhibiting spawning behavior all morning so I took a closer look at the water plants. Plenty of eggs sticking everywhere. I really don’t want any pond mutts so I’m going to not feed the koi, hoping they will eat the bulk of the eggs in the…
Big Pond Worries
Our new pond is three weeks old and I am having major anxiety issues. Two days ago the water levels were perfect. Now I have a nitrite spike, which is normal for new ponds but there can be a lot of bad consequences if it’s not taken care of. The pond should naturally develop bacteria…
Happier Koi (I think)
Since the big koi have been moved out of the original pond, the little koi have all come out of hiding and are now swimming around in the open all the time. The three large butterfly koi still share their pond but the little koi do not seem to be bothered by them. Unfortunately, I…
The fun part of koi keeping
It seems we do a lot of work on our weekends taking care of the koi and building the new pond. It is work but there’s a lot of fun with it as well. This weekend was plant weekend and it was nice to see all the koi excited about the plants. We picked out some…
“Don’t let me build another pond next year…”
So my husband says this afternoon….The new pond work is going well.You can follow our progress under the 2014 koi pond tab.We have been renting some machinery which has really made the work easier. The pond has taken the shape of a peanut, with the far end to hold a four feet deep well. We…
Spring is finaly here (well sort of)
I’m going out on a limb here but I’m pretty sure we have seen the last of snow. We are still having some temperature dips to the low 30s but we have had some beautiful spring weather days. The waterfall system has finally thawed and running as planned. All the koi seem to be doing…
What do fish do when you’re not looking?
Our koi tend to be an unfriendly lot. They’re not the koi that swarms towards someone feeding them. I used to think that they just needed to get used to the feeder so I would stand out there for long periods of time. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that they are skittish and wary…
Attracting backyard pests
We live in suburbia and one of the pitfalls of an outdoor koi pond and bird feeders is unwanted wildlife. Nice to see but I wish they would go to someone else’s yard. Besides the hordes of gray and red squirrels, chipmunks and occasional feral cat, we see plenty of deer and wild turkey. Today…
Whatever happened to Cha Cha????
Well it was a lot of fun making little movies about Cha Cha but all things usually come to an end. For nineteen days, Cha Cha lived in a plastic bin in our garage. We thought he/she was a goner but Cha Cha started to turn around after two weeks. A little more upright albeit…
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